HLSC 3P97 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Rna Virus, Capsid, Integrase

• School: Brock University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: HLSC 3P97
• Professor: Dr.Patrangelii

Document Summary

Next lecture a living thing has the capacity to make more of itself. Virus cannot replicate without being a host cell. Agents that go through filter = living contagious fluid. Capsid arrange around nucleic acid to protect it. Viruses get into cells in different ways weather they have an envelope or not. Proteases studded in envelope look for receptor in host cell in order to get in. Envelope virus has specific receptors that its looking for based on envelope proteins.